Anti-Israel law students at Harvard conspired to smear numerous law firms that have stood opposed to anti-Israel efforts on college campuses, an investigation by the conservative Washington Free Beacon found.

Harvard’s student-led chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a left-wing legal advocacy group with chapters around the country, held a «Big Law, Big Secrets: Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon» earlier this month on campus. The event, led by a student with a reported history of anti-Israel activity, was meant to «gather data to edit the Wikipedia pages of Big Law firms to reflect cases they have recently argued.» 

Two days later, over a dozen law firms that have been critical of antisemitism at Harvard and other college campuses, including some that rescinded job offers from Harvard law students over it, saw their Wikipedia pages amended. 

The changes were done by a Wikipedia account linked to another Harvard law student with a history of anti-Israel advocacy, the Free Beacon found, and the changes effectively sought to make the law firms look bad in the eyes of liberals. Some changes also sought to soften language critical of campus antisemitism.

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For instance, a section on the Wikipedia page for the firm Davis Polk, which describes cases it has worked on, was changed from «Race Relations» to «Defense of Segregation.» The firm’s page also saw the addition of a lengthy section about its «Representation of Purdue Pharma,» a pharmaceutical company blamed by Democrats for playing a part in the opioid crisis.    

In 2023, Davis Polk rescinded a job offer it gave to a Harvard student over the student’s leadership in organizing anti-Israel protests on campus. It was also among 100 law firms that sent a November 2023 letter to Harvard urging it to clamp down on campus antisemitism after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks against innocent Israelis. 

Jones Day, which also signed the letter, had its Wikipedia page changed to include additions about it defending Walmart against allegations of overprescribing opioids, Second Amendment rights and «racial gerrymandering.»

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Latham & Watkins, another signer, saw a section about its work on a case related to the Chevron deference principle changed to say the firm «eroded agencies’ abilities to protect civil rights, human health and the environment, and other critical public functions.» 

Jenner & Block, another signer of the November letter, saw a criticism about its representation of Uber in a suit over whether its drivers should be considered full-time employees or contractors added to its page.

Only students and authorized staff with Harvard IDs had access to Harvard University due to the protests April 25, 2024.  (Anibal Martel/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, the edit history for some of the firms that signed on to the letter, such as Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, showed efforts to dull language about what occurred on college campuses after Hamas’ attacks. For instance, the Harvard law student-linked account changed «amid a wave of antisemitism in the United States,» to «amid a wave of Gaza war protests in the United States» on the firm’s page. Additionally, «antisemitic incidents at elite U.S. law schools» was changed to «pro-Palestine protests at elite U.S. law schools.»

Overall, 14 law firms saw changes such as these, according to the Free Beacon’s investigation. When reached for comment, Harvard University spokesperson Jeff Neal said the Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon was organized by a student-run organization «and does not represent the views of Harvard Law School.» 

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Harvard faculty and staff hold signs inside Harvard Yard during a press conference by faculty supporters of the Harvard Out of Palestine coalition.  (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached out to the National Lawyers Guild’s Harvard chapter and its national organization but did not receive a response. 

Earlier this month, the Trump administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism froze over $2.2 billion in federal funding for Harvard. The administration has indicated it could take away as much as $9 billion if Harvard does not meet its requirements on antisemitism and other federal directives from Trump.

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The Trump administration is also looking at ways to strip Harvard’s tax-exempt status after the school said it would not comply with a number of the president’s demands related to campus antisemitism, DEI and other policy priorities the president has laid out during his first 100 days in office. 

La antigua Roma fue testigo de un desarrollo médico que, aunque innovador para su tiempo, resulta impactante bajo la lente de la modernidad.

Según History Extra, los médicos romanos, carentes de normas reguladoras y equipados con conocimientos limitados, implementaron técnicas de sanación que, si bien salvaban vidas, también implicaban dolorosos procedimientos sin el alivio de anestesia.

Estas prácticas reflejan un enfoque pionero, pero a menudo brutal y ciertamente peligroso.

Uno de los aspectos más fascinantes de la medicina romana fue el intento de revertir la circuncisión. Este procedimiento se realizaba principalmente entre hombres de origen judío u oriental que buscaban integrarse mejor en la sociedad romana, donde la apariencia era un factor crucial.

El método consistía en hacer una incisión en la piel y aplicar pesos para estirar gradualmente el prepucio, lo que representaba un proceso extremadamente doloroso y prolongado.

La doctora Patty Baker, una historiadora citada por History Extra, explicó que el deseo de encajar en el ideal romano justificaba este doloroso procedimiento.

El parto en la antigua Roma era una experiencia extremadamente riesgosa. Según el artículo, en casos en los que el bebé fallecía durante el trabajo de parto, los médicos realizaban una “embriotomía” para salvar a la madre.

Este procedimiento consistía en la extracción del feto, a menudo desmembrando el cuerpo del bebé para facilitar su extracción. La historiadora Baker detalla que, aunque esta cirugía era horripilante desde una perspectiva moderna, ofrecía una de las pocas oportunidades para preservar la vida materna.

History Extra también evidencia cómo los romanos abordaban cirugías sin el beneficio de anestésicos modernos. Las amputaciones constituían procedimientos comunes, realizados con el paciente plenamente consciente y sólo suavizados por remedios herbales rudimentarios.

Baker destaca que algunos textos discutían el uso de opiáceos rudimentarios, pero en su mayoría recurrían al consumo de vino para calmar a quienes se sometían a cirugía.

Esto convertía las operaciones en verdaderas carreras contra el tiempo, donde el equilibrio entre velocidad y precisión era crucial. El escritor Celsus, citado por Dr. Baker, subrayaba que un cirujano debía poder operar rápidamente para disminuir el dolor del paciente.

Uno de los problemas medulares en la práctica médica romana era la falta de reglamentación. Cualquier individuo podía proclamarse médico, independientemente de su formación o capacidades. Según History Extra, este vacío regulador permitía que doctores incompetentes evadieran responsabilidades al huir después de un procedimiento fallido.

Esto creaba un escenario comparado con el “Viejo Oeste”, donde los pacientes quedaban a merced de personas que sus habilidades y conocimientos eran tan diversos como inciertos.

La obsesión romana con la limpieza es otro aspecto resaltado en el informe. Los romanos construyeron sofisticados sistemas de saneamiento, pero no comprendían la teoría microbiana moderna. Baker explicó que las medidas higiénicas se basaban en la creencia en el “miasma”, la idea de que el mal olor era la causa de las enfermedades.

Sin embargo, se alentaba la limpieza de heridas con sustancias antisépticas conocidas como el vino y la miel, pese a su desconocimiento del concepto de gérmenes.

El arte médico romano revela una civilización dispuesta a traspasar límites en busca de la sanación, utilizando métodos que mezclaban innovación y brutalidad. Aunque sus prácticas resultan impactantes, su ingenio sentó las bases para avances futuros.

El medio concluye afirmando que la medicina romana sigue siendo motivo de asombro y reflexión sobre la capacidad de la humanidad para adaptarse y evolucionar en la búsqueda del bienestar.

Saturday’s talks in Rome between the Trump administration and the Islamic Republic of Iran over the rogue regime’s failure to dismantle its illicit nuclear weapons program have raised pressing questions about whether Tehran will adhere to a new deal.

Speaking on «The Story with Martha MacCallum,» retired Gen. Jack Keane, a Fox News senior strategic analyst, said Iran is reintroducing its «playbook» that [was] used to secure the JCPOA from Obama and termed its strategy a «bold-faced lie» that led to the «disastrous 2015» agreement.

Keane said Iran is repackaging the lie that it will reduce highly enriched uranium down to a low percentage and not use it for a nuclear weapon. Instead, it will employ it for civilian commercial nuclear power. Kean added that the Iranians «think the Trump administration is going to buy this. After all, in 2018, Trump pulled out of that very deal.»

In 2018, President Trump withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the formal name for the 2015 nuclear deal brokered by the Obama administration, because, he argued, it failed to stop Iran’s ambitions to construct an atomic bomb. 

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Fox News Digital sent a detailed press query to the State Department regarding the Islamic Republic’s history of cheating and lying when dealing with its previous pledges to not build a nuclear weapon.

A spokesperson for the State Department told Fox News Digital, «This, along with many other issues, will be decided at the negotiating table. The president has been clear: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon or enrichment program. As we continue to talk, we expect to refine a framework and timetable for working towards a deal that achieves the president’s objectives peacefully.»

Speaking Friday, President Trump told reporters, «I’m for stopping Iran very simply from having a nuclear weapon. They can’t have a nuclear weapon.»

Enrichment of uranium is the key process that enables Iran’s regime to advance its work on a deliverable nuclear weapon. 

«Iran’s enrichment is a real, accepted matter,» Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Wednesday. «We are ready to build confidence in response to possible concerns, but the issue of enrichment is non-negotiable.»
 

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, views Iranian nuclear achievements on June 11. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA/Reuters)

Mark Wallace, the CEO of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) and a former U.N. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, told Fox News Digital, «Under the Bush administration, zero enrichment was enshrined in U.N. Security Council resolutions. The Obama administration changed that position, allowing enrichment up to 3.67%, and this paved the way for the failed JCPOA that has allowed Iran to extort the international community ever since.»

The Obama administration’s concession to Iran to permit it to enrich uranium to 3.67% has created new problems for Trump to halt Tehran’s drive to build a weapon. Iran has exploited the right to enrich uranium to speed up its weapons program. The U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency announced in February that Iran has produced dramatically more uranium that can be used in six atomic bombs and stressed that Tehran has made no progress on resolving outstanding issues.

Iran’s medium-range ballistic missile Hayber after a launch during a promotional program organized with the participation of high-ranking military officials in Tehran, Iran, May 7, 2023.  (Iranian Defense Ministry/Hanodut/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump said in late March he would launch military strikes against Iran if it failed to agree to his demands for a new nuclear pact.

Prior to Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA, Fox News Digital reported in 2017 that Iran tried to obtain illicit technology that could be used for military nuclear and ballistic missile programs, raising questions about a possible violation of the 2015 agreement intended to stop Tehran’s drive to become an atomic armed power, according to three German intelligence reports.

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The Trump administration has outlined a two-month framework to reach a deal with Iran, John Hannah, a senior fellow at JINSA, said during a briefing about Iran’s nuclear weapons program Thursday.

Hannah served in senior advisory roles with former Vice President Dick Cheney and was intimately involved in developing U.S. strategy toward talks with Iran over Afghanistan, Iraq and the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program throughout President George W. Bush’s two terms in the White House.  

Traditionally, military pressure has influenced the Islamic Republic of Iran’s recalcitrant and anti-American leaders to make concessions. The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 reportedly compelled the clerical regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, to briefly pause his country’s work on nuclear weapons.  

Khamenei feared American military action at the time.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, meets Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr Albusaidi before negotiations with U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff in Muscat, Oman, April 12, 2025.  (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Hannah said Trump’s «military threat is what brought Supreme Leader Khamenei to the table» because it «put his own regime at risk.» Hannah outlined what dismantlement «with a capital D» would mean for Iran. He said «all of their enriched uranium leaves the country,» and the centrifuges are destroyed and taken out of the country. Hannah said Iran’s secretive underground Fordow nuclear fuel enrichment plant and Natanz nuclear site were where Iran was caught digging tunnels in the mountains.

Hannah’s organization, JINSA, released an infographic Wednesday that focused in on Trump administration officials’ comments on verification and dismantlement.

According to a Reuters report, a senior Iranian official said Friday that Iran told the United States in talks last week it was ready to accept some limits on its uranium enrichment but needed watertight guarantees President Donald Trump would not again ditch a nuclear pact.

Tehran’s red lines «mandated by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei» could not be compromised in the talks, the official told Reuters, describing Iran’s negotiating position on condition of anonymity.

He said those red lines meant Iran would never agree to dismantle its centrifuges for enriching uranium, halt enrichment altogether or reduce the amount of enriched uranium it stores to a level below the level it agreed in the 2015 deal that Trump abandoned.

U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff speaks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fun, in the Oval Office of the White House Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C.  (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

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It would also not negotiate over its missile program, which Tehran views as outside the scope of any nuclear deal.

Top U.S. negotiator Steve Witkoff, in a post on X on Tuesday, said Iran must «stop and eliminate its nuclear enrichment» to reach a deal with Washington.

Reuters contributed to this report.